Mexico Killings: 18 Dead In Bloody Ciudad Juarez Day

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- At least 18 people including a preteen boy have died in a single day of cartel violence in Ciudad Juarez.

Attorney General's office spokesman Arturo Sandoval said Tuesday was one of the bloodiest days of 2011 in the border town. At least 20 homicides were recorded there on Feb. 18.

He said among the 18 killings were three hospital parking attendants shot to death at midday by unidentified gunmen.

Later, gunmen opened fire on a youth soccer game, killing four people and leaving four others in critical condition.

Authorities also say a 12-year-old boy was followed into a restaurant by assailants and killed.

It is not immediately clear if the killings are related. Ciudad Juarez has been plagued by violence between warring cartels.

Comments

[fworfe]

07:29 PM on 08/30/2011

If you're still wondering who and what is fueling the drug killings in Mexico and other Latin countries, you've been in a deep slumber, or you are in a deep state of self-denial.
It is us, our well-intentioned drug laws, that cause and perpetuate these killings.
In principle, these US drug laws work---or don't work actually---the same way Prohibition worked or didn't work in the heyday of Al Capone. Needless to say, the massacres in Mexico on any given day, make Capone's Valentine’s Day Massacre look like a Sunday school picnic.
Yes, our laws drive up the price of drugs---just what the dealers and cartels want---and make the use of drugs more exciting especially for youngsters. Who, incidentally, can get any kind of drugs they can afford within minutes from anyplace in the USA.
So what can we do?
We can repeal these asinine laws except for minors. In so doing, the drug prices plummet, the dealers will have to go to work or starve, the users can overdose and die, or they can clean up their act and live.
For all of you, who pretend these laws take the place of your own responsibility to your kids, forget it. These laws aren't working, can't work and won't work, no matter how much you wish it to be the case. You and your kids are on your own all the way.
And that is how it should be anyway.

[Jerry Bourbon]

11:32 AM on 07/15/2011

Thank God Mexico does not allow civilian ownership or carrying of firearms. I mean, if you think THIS is bad, imagine if Mexico had Texan gun laws!!!!! The carnage might get as bad as it is across the river in El Paso!

[Greatest Darthfruit]

06:18 PM on 07/14/2011

I guess the three stooges (Major Teto Murguia, Governor Duarte and Public safety advisor Leyzaola) spoke prematurely about Juarez becoming a safer city, huh?

[AZreb]

11:17 PM on 07/13/2011

This article sure disappeared off the "World" page in a hurry! Seems like we would see more and not less of news from a neighboring country - instead we have a "World" page filled with the Middle East, Israel, and countries thousands of miles away from us.

I commented on this story when it first appeared and from the remarks of others, I can see why it is now hidden away - can't have Holder and the administration criticized for being gunrunners!

[Dick Stone]

11:29 PM on 07/13/2011

You are exactly correct. Having an article like this forces the deniers to acknowledge how violent it is on our borders and they might actually realize that the violence is pouring across into our border states. As long as they don't acknowledge the dangers that we in border states have to face dail, then they will not have to address the problem. The Left still wants to call the invasion of illegal aliens, an immigration issue. The President stood near the border of where these murders took place in Juarez and proclaimed that the border was more secure than ever as then he proceeded to his stand up routine and made jokes about moats and alligators.

[OntheBorder]

01:06 PM on 07/13/2011

The head of the BATF, Holder and Obama should be investigated for their involvement in accessory to murder of Mexican and US citizens including US and Mexican law Enforcement Officers immediately.


Murder and Corruption On The Border, courtesy of the Obama WH. Obama signed Operation Gun Running into law with $10,000,000 of the American Reinvestment Act . So Obama invested in the murder of Mexican and US citizens on both sides of the border?
Congratulations Progressives, you passed a stimulus pork bill that is directly linked to contributing to murder and mayhem on the border.

This is an outrage! Where is the Progressives and the Dems on Operation Gun Runner?

Or do ya’ll condone corruption and murder when a DEMOCRATIC administration is doing it.

[CAhye]

10:43 AM on 07/13/2011

there are now more hispanic babies being born than any other race in CA, they are not a minority.

[CAhye]

10:42 AM on 07/13/2011

PUT UP THE WALL, stop making it a racial issue.

[olitenup]

10:14 AM on 07/13/2011

Congratulations to our AG Holder and DEA head Lionhart for their apparent perverse pleasure in backing the scam called "drug war".

Legalize now and stop the current murderous policy

[Ana Mancini]

10:07 AM on 07/13/2011

There is NO such thing as the War on Drugs. They dont want to stop the Drugs. Way toooooo many people will lose their jobs.

Ana Mancini

[quoveritas]

09:51 AM on 07/13/2011

Keep snorting, shooting and smoking America!

Mexican children are dying to help you with your habits...

[Vampyre Dog]

10:09 AM on 07/13/2011

The Obama admin keeps the drugs illegal and supplies both the Mexican government and cartels with money.

[Vampyre Dog]

10:09 AM on 07/13/2011

money and guns.

[rda1911a1]

09:32 AM on 07/13/2011

Ah yes it's so great that liberals rise up to call for the inclusion of the wonderful Mexican culture. Why just think as the continued influx of Mexican culture brought in by hard working illegal aliens gains more and more traction here in the US we too ccan soon look forward to our soccer games being fired up by proud Mexican culture supporters

[quoveritas]

09:48 AM on 07/13/2011

You should've been aborted...

[malander]

10:32 AM on 07/13/2011

And if the lovely American drug culture would cease, this would not be happening as much. We are even getting to lazy to cook our own meth in the US we now by that cheaper from Mexico too. We are the demand, they are the supply.

[rda1911a1]

01:58 PM on 07/13/2011

Yes it's so funny how druggies support killing with every purchase they make without their money the cartels could not buy AK's and 7.62x39 ammo

[lqw]

09:28 AM on 07/13/2011

This is already spreading to the US.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10681249

[Don Cox]

09:23 AM on 07/13/2011

This is all the result of the long runnin war on drugs= war on people

[lqw]

09:21 AM on 07/13/2011

Maybe Cain's joke about the moat with alligators wasn't so far off.
 Shooting 12 year old kids ? I they running out of adults to shoot?

[malander]

10:34 AM on 07/13/2011

Revenge is taken on family members. The gang members all realize they'll eventually die violently, the terror is in watching innocent relatives get killed. This is done all around the world to create fear.

[bccmeteorites]

06:32 PM on 07/13/2011

It sounds terrible. But even kids in many countries are involved in the drug trade and they can become a target of opposing drug gangs.

[jimbob1234]

09:17 AM on 07/13/2011

Obama could be part to blame for this. Watch Video.
http://biggovernment.com/bmccarty/2011/07/12/project-gunrunner-tied-directly-to-president-obama/